A very interesting piece of early Science Fiction -- masquerading as speculative science -- on the subject of our purported Martian neighbors, from the February 8th 1920 edition of the New York Tribune. A surprisingly colorful and Utopian counterpoint to the Wellesian vision of interplanetary relations. Taken from the Library of Congress website; edited by Timothy J. Hamilton. Minor edits include normalizing, shrinking the image by one half, and slightly blurring the central illustration. Image was then recompressed as a high quality Jpeg.

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The original Library of Congress file can be viewed here as:

Jpeg2000 -- high quality, large file:

http://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn83030214/1920-02-08/ed-1/seq-69.jp2

Pdf -- low quality, small file:

http://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn83030214/1920-01-04/ed-1/seq-65.pdf

Also, the home page of the article -- presented as an interactive viewer:

http://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn83030214/1920-02-08/ed-1/seq-69/

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